Editorial standards
baba News aggregates and translates other people's journalism. These are the standards we hold ourselves to in choosing what to cover and how to describe it.
Our role
baba News is an aggregator, not a newsroom. We do no original reporting. Our editorial work is in deciding which outlets to follow, translating and summarizing their stories faithfully, clustering reports of the same event, and describing each outlet’s political lean as honestly as we can. Where we have an editorial judgment to make, this page explains how we make it.
How we select sources
We aim for breadth and balance rather than a single perspective. Our roughly 30 outlets span the Israeli political spectrum and four languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and the outlets’ own English editions. We include high-volume dailies, public broadcasters, business press, and the religious and national-religious press, so that a reader sees the left, center, right, and community framings of the same event. The full list is on our sources page.
Neutrality and non-endorsement
Including an outlet is not an endorsement of it, and translating a story is not an endorsement of its claims. baba News takes no side. We do not editorialize inside summaries, we do not add our own opinion to a story, and we present coverage from across the spectrum side by side precisely so readers can judge for themselves. baba News is not affiliated with any outlet, party, government, or advocacy group.
How we assign political lean
The left, center, and right labels on each source, and the coverage bar shown on clustered stories, are baba’s own editorial judgment. We hand-assign a lean to each outlet based on its widely understood reputation and editorial posture. Outlets that cannot be responsibly placed on a left-to-right axis, such as business press and some community outlets, are marked unrated rather than forced into a bucket. When a clustered story includes fewer than two politically rated outlets, we do not claim a skew at all. These are judgments, not measurements; reasonable people will disagree, and we welcome challenges at news@itsbaba.com.
Accuracy and the limits of AI
Translations, summaries, key points, and extracted entities on baba News are produced by AI (large language models). They are good, but they are not perfect and can contain errors, mistranslations, or missed nuance. Every article is labeled “Translated & summarized by baba” so readers know what they are reading. For any decision that matters, read the original article we link to. Our AI and translation policy covers this in detail, and our corrections policy explains how we fix mistakes.
Independence
baba News is funded by the baba product and takes no money or editorial direction from the outlets it covers or from any outside interest. No source pays to be included, excluded, or described a particular way. We run no sponsored stories.
Respect for the original
We credit and link to every source, and we treat their work as theirs. For outlets that publish their own English edition, we summarize and link out rather than republishing a full competing English text. The copyright in the original articles belongs to the respective newsrooms; see our terms for how we handle rights and takedowns.